Preface / Javon Johnson and Kevin Coval
On hearing King Louie / Andrew Barber
When King Louie first heard the word Chiraq / Kevin Coval
To live and die in "Chiraq" / Mariame Kaba
Rome wasn't built in a day / Malcolm London
Windowpain : Bryce Thomas / Nile Lansa
My grandmother tells me and my cousins why she hates the word Chiraq ... / Demetrius Amparan
Do we even need to be understood to get free? / Page May
9 of disks / Fatimah Ashgar
Frank Bradely : interview / by Aneko Jackson
How America loves Chicago's ghosts more than the people still living in the city : an erasure poem / Jacqui Germain
A tale of two & many cities
I am Windy City / Patricia Frazier
If you aren't from Chicago / Tim "Toaster" Henderson
Concrete flowers / Aneko Jackson
Chicago is the world's Harold's Chicken box / Kara Jackson
When asked about Chicago : a confession / Alfonzo Kahlil
History, as written by the victors / Krista Franklin
Ye though I walk through Chi / Naudia j. Williams
Ghazal for White Hen Pantry / Jamila Woods
Holy hermosa / Sara Geiger
Corn man on every corner / Sammy Ortega
Into a white neighborhood / Melinda Hernandez
Poem for Cal City : confession / Jose Olivarez
In the Bridgeport row house / Natalie Richardson
I'm from Chicago, but not really / Michael Cuaresma
Damon / Gwendolyn Brooks College Prep Louder Than a Bomb Team.
Flatline / Raymesha Henry
Dboy black : a poem for Briyae / Brittney Kapri
Black boy dreams / Aneko Jackson
Ode to North Lawndale / Anton Charles Sanders
Drill / Breanna Bonslater
Why is the Chicago Police Department targeting Chief Keef? / Jake Krez
Why do black boys smoke so much weed? / Demetrius Amparan
Kill the noise(y) / Tara C. Mahadevan
Windowpain : Raymond a.k.a. Lil' Ray / Nile Lansa
The go / Marwin "Stark of HUEY" Williams
Notes for Mars Blackmon on the making of Spike Lee's film Chi-raq / Kevin Coval
Spike Lee's Chi-raq isn't strong enough to hold the city it exploits / Brittney Kapri
Why I'm bootlegging Chi-raq / A Nate Marshall Joint
Rethinking revolution : creating space for the black body through the spoken word / Alfonzo Kahlil
Hip hop poet / Marvin Tate
Woop wop de bam / Nate Marshall
The stoop / Jalen Kobayashi
Flower breaking through the concrete : an interview with Liz Lazdins / Leah Love
In the business : a manifesto / Miguel Aguilar
On afro-futurism : a roundtable with D. Denenge Akpem, Damon Locks, and Ytasha L. Womack / Leah Love
Captives public showing / Matthew Wilbourn
Ghost town / Idris Goodwin
Mama Emily tells the story / Sarah McKee
Out the trap : building with the elephant rebellion / Grace Jones
Paradise on fire / Jahnari Pruitt
How to win reparations / Sarah Macaraeg and Yana Kunichoff
Somewhere, upcoming / Kara Jackson
Toward the unreasonable / Page May and Nate Marshall
Water pressure / Sammy Ortega
#blacklivesmatter and ... the six unconditionals / Dr. Haki Madhubuti
Ode to dawn / Gellila Asmanmaw
